During the bombing raid of Thu, 5 Oct 2000 21:05:42 +0300, somebody heard
Meir Faraj mumble in fear:
> On Thu, 05 Oct 2000, Eugenio Diaz wrote:
> > --- Meir Faraj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hi ,
> > > I've tryed to download new package from
> > > ftp.linux-mandrake.com/incoming but
> > > could not read any of them .....
> > >
> > > why ?
> >
> > He, he, go read FTP101 ;-)
> >
> > Now seriously, the "incomming" directory of an FTP
> > server has been a "blind" directory, since anyone has
> > write access to it and could delete other's people
> > submissions.
> >
>
> You're funny , but it's possible to give permission in write and read also
> but not to delete other submission like for the tmp dir of unix .....
The real idea behind having a blind incoming dir is to stop
people from using you as a warez server...if they can write but can't
read, they can't use you.
Arioshi ba
Vox, who still remembers the time when incoming used to be
non-blind because nobody would abuse your servers
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